Comparative Perspectives on European Colonization in the Americas: Papers in Honor of Réginald Auger

Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2020

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Comparative Perspectives on European Colonization in the Americas: Papers in Honor of Réginald Auger," at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

This session reviews the substantial contributions to the historical archaeology of the Americas by Professor Réginald Auger of Université Laval, Québec City, his collaborators, colleagues and his current and former students. Presentations reflect the major geographical regions of his research: the Canadian Atlantic Provinces, Québec City, and French Guiana. The works of Professor Auger and his students are often grounded in both contextual and environmental archaeology and materials research as emphasized by his department. They also address the shifting currents of theoretical interests since the 1980s. The broad geographical and cultural purview of these papers also allows for taking a comparative perspective on French and British colonialism in the New World. Presentations are made in both English and French.

Other Keywords
Inuit • Urban • settlement • Fort • Material Culture • Plantation • Tradition • Interaction • Fortifications • Colonization

Temporal Keywords
Contact Period • Late 18th Century • 17th-18th Centuries • 17th and 18th centuries • 18th-19th century • 1800-1900 • 16th to 18th century • 1650-1900 • 1570s • 1608-1760

Geographic Keywords
Massachusetts (State / Territory) • New York (State / Territory) • New Hampshire (State / Territory) • Idaho (State / Territory) • Maine (State / Territory) • Wisconsin (State / Territory) • Michigan (State / Territory) • Washington (State / Territory) • Minnesota (State / Territory) • Vermont (State / Territory)

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  • Applying An Interdisciplinary Approach To The Understanding Of A Semi-subterranean Sod House In Labrador (2020)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Laurence Pouliot.

    This is an abstract from the session entitled "Comparative Perspectives on European Colonization in the Americas: Papers in Honor of Réginald Auger" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. As Professor Auger advocated during his career at Université Laval and transmitted to his students over the years, interdisciplinary approaches are fundamental to the development of archeology. Our science already uses and combines different techniques and methods in order to...

  • An Archaeological Perspective On The Transition From Enslavement To Freedom In The Colony Of Bermuda (2020)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Marley Brown III.

    This is an abstract from the session entitled "Comparative Perspectives on European Colonization in the Americas: Papers in Honor of Réginald Auger" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The archaeological study of enslavement within the plantation economies of the West Indies has also documented the period of transition to freedom through "amelioration" and actual emancipation. Though not parts of plantations, domestic sites where enslaved people lived on...

  • De la Guyane à Saint-Pierre et Miquelon, en passant par Terre-Neuve (2020)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Catherine Losier.

    This is an abstract from the session entitled "Comparative Perspectives on European Colonization in the Americas: Papers in Honor of Réginald Auger" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The imperialistic project of France during the colonial era was based on the strong interdependency between the Métropole and its colonies spread all around the globe. Interestingly, the cultural areas in which Professor Réginald Auger worked during is career allow to take a...

  • From Forts to Cities in New France, Passing Through villages. (2020)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Simon Santerre.

    This is an abstract from the session entitled "Comparative Perspectives on European Colonization in the Americas: Papers in Honor of Réginald Auger" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. For my master’s degree, I worked on the Jacques Cartier Fort site. Later in my career, my work on fortifications became my doctoral project which is the study of French cities in the Americas. Defense structures were important to their conception and design. For my...

  • The Inuit of Southern Labrador in Archaeological and Historical Context (2020)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Lisa Rankin.

    This is an abstract from the session entitled "Comparative Perspectives on European Colonization in the Americas: Papers in Honor of Réginald Auger" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Understanding the history of the Inuit in southern Labrador, Canada was significant among the many archaeological contributions made by Réginald Auger. This work, undertaken early in his career, began to piece together an often confusing record of Inuit arrival, settlement...

  • Inuit Sod Houses on a Contested Coast (2020)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Marianne P. Stopp.

    This is an abstract from the session entitled "Comparative Perspectives on European Colonization in the Americas: Papers in Honor of Réginald Auger" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Anchored in Reginald Auger’s foundational research on Inuit presence in southern Labrador, and in the conference’s theme of revolution, this paper considers late 18th century Inuit resistance, loss, and persistence at a time when much of eastern North America was in upheaval....

  • "It’s a Bloom!"—Recollections on Martin Frobisher, Kodlunarn Island, and the Meta Incognita Project (2020)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only William W. Fitzhugh.

    This is an abstract from the session entitled "Comparative Perspectives on European Colonization in the Americas: Papers in Honor of Réginald Auger" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The 1861 discovery by Charles Francis Hall of Elizabethan relics on Kodlunarn (White Man) Island in the outer reaches of Frobisher Bay, southeast Baffin Island, and a peculiar Viking-age radiocarbon date on one of Hall’s iron blooms, set in motion a multi-year international...

  • The Loyola Habitation in French Guyana: 25 Years of Scientific Research (2020)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Yannick Le Roux.

    This is an abstract from the session entitled "Comparative Perspectives on European Colonization in the Americas: Papers in Honor of Réginald Auger" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The purpose of this presentation is to highlight the contributions of Réginald Auger and his team from the Université Laval in the investigation of Loyola, a Jesuit residence and plantation located in French Guyana. The research revealed an important site that allows us to...

  • Meet the Andersons: Urban Archaeology of the 19th century in Quebec City, Canada (2020)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Allison L Bain.

    This is an abstract from the session entitled "Comparative Perspectives on European Colonization in the Americas: Papers in Honor of Réginald Auger" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Since 2017, the Anderson site in the Limoilou neighbourhood of Quebec City has been excavated by Université Laval’s historical archaeology field school. The rich material culture of the 19th century recovered since 2018 has created significant local interest in the project....

  • Reinventing the Colonial Plantation on French Saint-Christophe (2020)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Steven R Pendery.

    This is an abstract from the session entitled "Comparative Perspectives on European Colonization in the Americas: Papers in Honor of Réginald Auger" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper examines the transformation of the plantation economy from tobacco to sugar production at sites on the island of Saint-Christophe (Saint Kitts) in the French Antilles. This shift was motivated by a drop in tobacco prices in the 1630s leading to sugar monoculture....

  • Toward an Archaeology of French Settlement in the Arkansas River Valley: Chasing the Arkansas Post in the Documentary and Archaeological Records. (2020)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrew Beaupre.

    This is an abstract from the session entitled "Comparative Perspectives on European Colonization in the Americas: Papers in Honor of Réginald Auger" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 1686, while in an attempt to rendezvous with René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, Henri de Tonti established the "Poste de Arkansea" at the Quapaw village of Osotouy. Garrisoned by a handful of adventurers, the Arkansas Post was the first ‘semi-permanent’ French...

  • An Urban Context for the Study of Colonialism: Québec City (2020)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only William Moss.

    This is an abstract from the session entitled "Comparative Perspectives on European Colonization in the Americas: Papers in Honor of Réginald Auger" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Québec City was the urban heart of the European colonization of the Saint Lawrence River watershed for much of the French and English regimes; it remained an important urban centre well after. The city is a major source of data about and an inspiration for the study of...